For the 2020 census, L.A. County, officials say, will be the nation’s hardest to tally because of its high concentrations of renters and homeless people, as well as immigrant communities that may not participate.
Policarpo Chaj, second from right, director of Maya Vision, speaks to a group of Mayan community members during a 2020 census meeting at Centro Cultural Techantit.
In Los Angeles, home to the largest hard-to-count population in the nation, ensuring participation is particularly important. Still, there will be major hurdles. Those without reliable internet connections may be missed in a census for which much of the count will happen through online surveys. People worry that la migra will get them. They say, ‘If that’s the case, then forget it. I would rather be invisible.’Many of the services that people rely on in Los Angeles — such as nutrition programs and housing assistance — are tied to funds from“The biggest hurdle we have is for people to feel the data they will give the census will not come back in some way to hurt them,” said Arturo Vargas, chief executive of NALEO Educational Fund.
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